11.   Compaq has also instituted a broad effort to reduce costs and increase return on capital, which bore fruit in the quarter.

12.   Eventually her efforts to interest scientists in the genetics of the strain bore fruit.

13.   Finding such spots is not easy, but on a recent afternoon, the efforts of inspector M. Gomez bore fruit.

14.   For all the tension, though, the exercise bore fruit.

15.   Government persecution eventually drove them from Cuba, but the seed they planted bore fruit.

16.   His diplomatic skills bore fruit last week.

17.   His years of effort finally bore fruit.

18.   I thought my efforts bore fruit.

19.   Last spring, grafts were made, and by last fall some of the trees bore fruit.

20.   Last week, their efforts bore fruit as the state Senate resoundingly rejected a constitutional amendment to legalize casinos.